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Hill Fights
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a series of battles in the vicinity of Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, in April and May 1967 US- Ten days after Westmoreland’s boast, on April 24, 1967, a five-man Marine forward observer party from Khe Sanh was ambushed in a grove of bamboo on Hill 861 northwest of the airstrip. One Marine survived. The first and cruelest struggle at Khe Sanh, the “Hill Fights” began. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 643, 1988
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